A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

Antiques by the Bay.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.